Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
passion masters breasts
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
passion chaos
chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
passion reason undone
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
passion literature conquer
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
life passion age
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
love passion men
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
life passion gale
Passions are the gales of life.
confused fall passion
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
passion contentment fame
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
war passion bears
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
ocean passion wind
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
passion clue found
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
passion fool sincere
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
passion differences giving
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.